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From: Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 07:35:37 -0500
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Subject: Re: Error compacting a database on Windows
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On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 7:29 AM, ujay68 <ujay68@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for answering. I now found this issue which looks like the same topic:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-86
>
> Any chance of re-opening that one? Not having compaction would make
> CouchDB essentially unavailable on Windows, which would be very
> unfortunate ideed. (I'm 100% pro Linux, but many customers and project
> managers aren't, and convincing them of switching to a NoSQL solution
> will be tricky enough even without convincing them to leave Windows at
> the same time ... ;-)
>
> Jay
>

The proper fix to this is probably going to be intertwined with [1].
Its not a trivial change so its going to require someone to step up
and figure out that code.

Paul Davis

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-67